AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2344, 21 September 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Two men who gave the names of George Gordon and ."Richard Stanley, have been arrested at Maryborough for garrotting. They had way-laid a resident named Rudderham, and were rilling his pockets when a person living close by, hearing a .scuffle, came out and inquired the cause. “ For God’s sake get some water, our mate is in a fit,” said one of the men who was holding Rudderham to the ground. The person addressed ran to get the water, and upon returning with it found that both the others had run away, leaving Rudderham, who with difficulty explained that he was not in a lit but had been assaulted.

A purse containing £lO in gold and notes, was lately found in a tea-kettle that was boiling on the lire in one of the dens of llomco Lane, Melbourne. The money belonged to ¥m. Gray, who was on the ere of starting for New Zealand. Edward Kelly is gradually recovering his strength, and is now able to move about without any apparent dilliculty. The application for the change of venue of his trial from Beech worth to Melbourne will probably be made in the course of a, few days. It is slated by the “ Bendigo Evening News” that Mr Butler Cole Aspinall, son of the late Mr B. C. Aspinall, has passed critical examinations with the highest honors, and has been called to the bar in England, lie will shortly leave the old country for Victoria. As an illustration of the .scarcity of water in some of the country districts of New South "Wales, we extract the fidlowing from the “ Grafton Argus” : “The latest importation from the metropolis is that of 10,000 gal. of water from the Sydney waterworks. This extraordinary consignment arrived by the New England steamer on Monday, August 23, and the uniter is being re-

tailed at 2d per gallon, that is, T 3 6s 8d for the contents of a 400-callon tank.” Mr Matthew Burnett’s labors in the cause of temperance and religion arc still being prosecuted in different parts of Adelaide and its suburbs, and are meeting with extraordinary success. His indoor religious meetings are crowded, and his torchlight processions and mass demonstrations arc attended by people of all creeds. Mr Gordon, Victorian engineer for Water Supply, has reported decidedly against the North-Western Canal proposals in their modified form. Mr Gordon considers the works would be most costly, and that they would not effect their pin pose even when they were constructed.

The selection of pictures made by the Tine Arts oominiti.ee has not met with the approval of all the Exhibition commissioners. The other day Mr Fergnsson complained that they had passed one picture which might do for a private gallery, but was not lit for public exhibition. After the mooting of the commissioners was over, Mr Fcrgusson took up a number of gentlemen to see the objectionable picture, which was hanging in the Victorian Court. It was recognised by one visitor as a copy of a painting to be found at the present day in the collection of Hampton Court—a collection open to the public every day of the week, including Sundays. Mr Fergusson was considerably “ chalfed” by his fellow-commissioners on the prudery he had manifested. The picture is a representation of Venus lying on a couch after taking the bath. Arrangements having been completed for despatching to England Mrs Greer, the widow of the victim of the late Opera-house tragedy, by the s.s. Chimborazo, on which the brother of the deceased gentleman had engaged a cabin, she was on the Bth instant discharged from the Melbourne Hospital. She was taken on board, but she was subsequently ordered ashore, aud had to leave. She was removed by her friends and conveyed to private lodgings, pending other arrangements.